The War of 1812 began began with two failures. First, General William Hull led the American army from Detroit to Canada. They met Tecumseh and his forces. Hull ended up surrendering .....

WAR OF 1812

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The War of 1812 began began with two failures. First, General William Hull led the American army from Detroit to Canada. They met Tecumseh and his forces. Hull ended up surrendering ____

A	Detroit
B	Albany
C	Quebec
D	Montreal

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Facing pressure from increased Indian resistance, who had recently allied with the British, Hull reluctantly accepted a commission as Brigadier General just in time for the War of 1812. The sixty-year-old general led part of the Invasion of Canada at the head of the Ohio militia.

Detailed explanation-2: -The two leading causes of the war were the British Orders-in-Council, which limited American trade with Europe, and impressment, the Royal Navy’s practice of taking seamen from American merchant vessels to fill out the crews of its own chronically undermanned warships.

Detailed explanation-3: -On December 24, 1814, the Treaty of Ghent officially ended the War of 1812, but the delayed news couldn’t stop nearly 1, 000 British troops from being killed at the Battle of New Orleans.

Detailed explanation-4: -During the WAR OF 1812, the campaign in western Upper Canada began with the arrival of American Brigadier General William HULL, governor of the Michigan Territory, at Detroit with some 1600 men on 6-7 July 1812.

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